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My rinky-dink version of Vichyssoise. It made a pretty good candidate for this badge bit.

I'm following this recipe from simplyrecipes.com except that I don't include cream or sour cream, and add smoked paprika, and pepper. When it's cold outside we also eat it hot instead of cold. I'm using water for the cooking medium.
The Vichyssoise Recipe

Raw Ingredients(minus spices)


Chopped and ready for cooking!


Cooking the onions


Adding water, salt,  spices and potatoes


30 minutes later...


After meeting the immersion blender


Finally, one big bowl of soup!


I had enough for two bowls, and still had about another two for leftovers!

https://traditionalcookingschool.com/food-preparation/recipes/split-mung-bean-soup/?pk_vid=af77a34244838da81642650342e840a7
I'm soaking the beans tonight and going to cook them tomorrow.

It's "soup-er" https://traditionalcookingschool.com/food-preparation/recipes/split-mung-bean-soup/?pk_vid=af77a34244838da81642650342e840a7
the large brown lump in the bottom pic is homemade stock about a pint frozen.

Sorry, I wasn’t following an actual recipe so there are no measurements. I just went by taste.
The Ingredients:
Butternut squash
Onion
Garlic
Thyme
Cinnamon
Cardamom
Salt and pepper
Greek yogurt (swirled in at the end)

I made from-scratch black bean soup last night from Nourishing Traditions. It was delicious and I’m definitely making it again but holy cow the smell was out of this world good. So relaxing!

We made a chicken two nights ago and I just got around to using the stock. Not much for fresh veggies around but I found some stuff in the freezer from our stores!

I was making bread so I decided to throw some biscuits in the oven as well

- 500g Bison stew meat
- 5 medium potatoes
- 1 1/2 c peas
- 1 1/2 c spinach
- 3 stalks celery
- handfull of green onions - yellow onion would be better but I didn't have any
- 2 tbsp fine diced ginger
- 1 c chopped garlic scapes
- 2-3 qt chicken broth from roasted chicken
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 c flour
- Thyme, salt, pepper, rosemary to taste

I've recently added the Adam Ragusea recipe to my repertoire. In brief, it goes like this:
Step 1: Take whatever you have
Step 2: Throw it in some water
Step 3: BOIL IT

It is, of course, a recipe as old as fire-safe pottery.

In this case, that's onion and tomato for the base, carrots for the bulk, a metric boatload of salt, pinch of pepper, some vinegar and some soy sauce (naturally brewed, fermented product). The green stuff was trimmed off the top of an onion that was too far gone and ultimately wasn't used. I didn't cut everything up ahead of time as the recipe is flexible and linear, just added everything to the boiling water as I added it.

Normally I'd add some frozen veg (peas and sweetcorn), and some mushroom ketchup, but for the purposes of this BB have not. The mushroom ketchup in particular, unlike the soy, was not particularly natural... I'll make my own one of these days. I also didn't add any of the usual leafy veg, on account of not having any to hand. The recipe is flexible and will work with pretty much anything you have to hand. The next batch will likely contain a swede and parsnip, and far fewer carrots, just because that's what's left.

this lamb stew was so rich.  All home grown food!

Parsnips
onion
garlic
lamb
rutabaga
potato



this is a year old lamb we harvest this past winter



These veggies came out of the garden

I let this cook all day.   here it is at dinner time.  

For this recipe, I made chicken vegetable soup, the ingredients are as follows:

Roughly 2 cans of each: shucked corn, baby peas, cut green beans
Roughly 3 cups of diced tomatoes seasoned with hot spices
3 tablespoons of garlic
3 cups water
7 large chicken breast diced into cubes

This recipe makes an entire large crockpot full, so definitely for more than 2 people and leftovers

I decided to go with Tom Kha soup for my recipe. Usually I'd use soy sauce but I didn't add it to this one. Instead I added more salt than usual and added some more ginger to give it a bit more of a kick. I go by taste for the seasonings and citrus so don't have any measurements for them.
Ingredients:
A can of coconut milk
A cup of water
Onion
Garlic
Lemon
Ginger
Mushrooms
Carrot
Lime
Salt
Cayenne pepper
Coriander